Usually our art galas are glorious examples of high-quality sketching — this week we’re having troubles in that department, so you’ll have to hold onto your hats until next week. Instead, I’m bringing you some examples of mixed-media. You remember we did archery, and began a little look at CHIKARA? When it comes to nerdsports,…
Amazon Calls for Many Loyal Customers to Join a Letter Campaign, Except…
…Amazon doesn’t have brand-loyal customers. It has price-loyal and convenience-loyal customers. Oops. But that may be enough to get some action going. We’ll see. Today a letter written by best-selling author, Douglas Preston, and signed by 908 writers from the US, Canada, Britain and beyond, will run in the Sunday New York Times. In it,…
R/W: N Is for No Surviiiiivors!
Fun. That’s a thing. A thing that started in the 1680s as a verb, meaning to cheat or trick. “Are you having fun with me?” The word is of uncertain origin — how like fun — but Online Etymology and Google suggest that it comes from the Middle English fon, which means to be a…